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Question: who wants commuter services between okehampton and exeter at peak times?
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« Reply #45 on: November 21, 2008, 22:34:13 »
Doors left open...?
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« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2008, 22:37:47 »
any other bad points? yes that is a problem but is it a huge one?
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« Reply #47 on: April 17, 2009, 09:49:29 »
The Dartmoor Railway is now up and running once again and intends to reinstate the second platform at Yeoford to allow a service to be run from Okehampton connecting with Barnstaple-Exeter services. The new service is planned to start at the end of May this year!

http://www.dartmoor-railway.co.uk/timetables.html
 
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« Reply #48 on: April 17, 2009, 21:13:42 »
Thanks, Andy! Wink

Just for completeness, there is another topic where this news is being posted, at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=2338.msg39637#msg39637

No problem with the overlap - I just want to make sure everyone's aware of what's happening!  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #49 on: April 17, 2009, 22:09:56 »
Quote from: Andy on April 17, 2009, 09:49:29
The Dartmoor Railway is now up and running once again and intends to reinstate the second platform at Yeoford to allow a service to be run from Okehampton connecting with Barnstaple-Exeter services. The new service is planned to start at the end of May this year! 

I presume someone will be doing something about access to the Okehampton platform at Yeoford before then?  Huh
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« Reply #50 on: April 18, 2009, 21:57:32 »
Quote from: TerminalJunkie on April 17, 2009, 22:09:56
Quote from: Andy on April 17, 2009, 09:49:29
The Dartmoor Railway is now up and running once again and intends to reinstate the second platform at Yeoford to allow a service to be run from Okehampton connecting with Barnstaple-Exeter services. The new service is planned to start at the end of May this year! 

I presume someone will be doing something about access to the Okehampton platform at Yeoford before then?  Huh

I imagine that in the short term a path from the platform to the lane that forks onto the road over the line and then the path down to the Exeter platform?

I guess ECT had plans for this before they pulled out. Iowa Pacific Holdings are a huge company in the US, way bigger than FGW▸ (First Great Western), and so IF they wanted to they could easily purchase new rolling stock for a service into Exeter.
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« Reply #51 on: April 25, 2009, 15:47:42 »
I'm impressed with the Dartmoor Railway it's back up and Running to Meldon and with Plans to run to Yeoford. Good Stuff

But unless somebody has been Very, Very Busy talking to Network Rail and others I just can't see Yeoford Downside  Platform being back in use this year, which is a Shame as it wil be the first time in what 11 or 12 years that Summer Sunday Train travel Hasn't been possible fron Exeter to Okehampton.
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